When Powell met Mikhail Gorbachev, he found the Soviet leader to be
a) impressive and intelligent.
b) unprepared and awkward.
c) blunt and arrogant.
d) a tasteless joker.
e) frightening and psychotic.
a
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What helped avoid a nuclear exchange in the early years of the Cold War?
a) Until rocket and jet technology caught up, neither side had the capability to deliver a heavy nuclear weapon long-distance. b) Neither side had more than a primitive understanding of nuclear weapons. Consider This: Early nuclear weapons had to be delivered by slow, low-flying propeller planes. See 14.5: Narrative: Big Ivan. c) Until 1954, the Soviet Union and the United States were technically allies. Consider This: Early nuclear weapons had to be delivered by slow, low-flying propeller planes. See 14.5: Narrative: Big Ivan. d) There was enough leftover World War II weaponry to make nuclear bombs superfluous. Consider This: Early nuclear weapons had to be delivered by slow, low-flying propeller planes. See 14.5: Narrative: Big Ivan.
When Joseph sent his final message to General Howard, he concluded,
a) "I have not yet begun to fight!" b) "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." c) "We have met the enemy and he is ours." d) "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country." e) "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man in the world."
In addition to woodcarvings, other major African artistic contributions have been
a. steel sculptures of European visitors done before 100 B.C.E. b. ivory statues from southern Nigeria. c. bronze and iron statuary produced at today's southern Nigeria. d. wooden fortresses constructed in Zimbabwe. e. Saharan aqueducts at Aswan.
The Irish immigrants to early-nineteenth-century America
a. were almost all Roman Catholics. b. tended to settle on western farmlands. c. were warmly welcomed by American workers. d. identified and sympathized with American free blacks. e. were often members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).